US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Oct. 7 for "Fuel cell having excellent sealing performance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,176, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell having excellent sealing performance" was invented by Yong Suk Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Min Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea) and Pil Young Lee (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell includes a cell stack in which multiple unit cells are stacked in a first direction, an enclosure enveloping the cell stack and including at least one opening to open at least one of the two end portions of the cell stack, first and second end plates respectively disposed at the two end portions of ...